Alina Selyukh
Stories
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All Things Considered
Biden To Call For Raising Federal Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour
President-elect Joe Biden will seek to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of his relief bill. On Friday, workers across the U.S. staged protests to press him to keep the promise.
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Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's First U.S. Union
Some 6,000 workers at Amazon's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., will begin voting on Feb. 8 on a groundbreaking possibility: whether to form the first union in the company's U.S. history.
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Retail Spending Dips For 3rd Straight Month As Infections Surge
Restaurants and bars are reeling from persistent spikes of coronavirus cases. Earlier holiday sales also meant online shopping and electronics sales dipped in December. Retail sales fell 0.7%.
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Tech Giants Join Corporate Reckoning Over Political Spending
Money-in-politics groups welcomed this unusually wide-spread — and self-initiated — reckoning by corporations over their own role in contributing to the nation's current political state.
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Google Workers Launch Union To Press Grievances With Executives
Over 200 engineers and others joined the Alphabet Workers Union, a big win for labor organizing in largely anti-union Silicon Valley. They are supported by the Communications Workers of America.
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Morning Edition
2020 Sets Record For Returns Of Online Purchases
After the mass shipping comes the mass returns. Online shopping drove this year's record sales, and online purchases are much more likely to get returned.
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For Christmas, My True Love Gave To Me... Hand Sanitizer, Because It's 2020
All year, cleaning products have been flying off the shelves — now, they're flying straight into Christmas stockings and wrapping paper.
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Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama Plan Vote On 1st U.S. Union
A labor board hearing is expected to hash out how and when a vote might take place to potentially form the first U.S. union at one of America's largest employers.
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Shoppers Stayed Away From Stores And Restaurants, Sending Sales Last Month Lower
As new coronavirus surges restricted outings to stores and especially restaurants, retail sales dipped 1.1% in November compared to a month earlier.
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Morning Edition
Paycheck-To-Paycheck Nation: How Life In America Adds Up
In the pandemic, a third of Americans struggle to pay usual costs, even some earning over $100,000. But living on the edge financially is nothing new in the U.S. Three households share their budgets.